Reasons For The Increase In The Divorce Rate Flashcards
What have changes in law over the last century have made what easier?
Divorce easier and cheaper and to get, giving Men and women equal rights in divorce
Changes in law reflect In what?
Changing social attitudes and norms, and there Are a number of wider social explanations that must be considered
What’s a really important explanation for the rising divorce rate?
The changing role of women
Around two-thirds of divorce petitions are granted to which gender?
Women
What does the act women request more divorces than men suggest?
That more women than men are unhappy with the state of their marriages and therefore more likely to take the first steps in ending them
Why are women more unhappy than men?
Feminists argue that women expectations of life and the quality of their relationship ms have risen during the course of the last century
What are women less likely to accept?
The patriarchal nature of marriage and the family, and the traditional housewife-mother role, with the sacrifices of their own leisure activities, careers and indendence this involves
Did the employment of married women increase or decrease over the last century
Increase
What are the two broad groups of reasons for the increase in the divorce rate?
Changes in the law which have gradually made divorce easier and cheaper to get it
Changes in society which have made divorce a more practical and socially acceptable was of terminating a broken marriage